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Embodied resocialization at a children’s weight loss camp
Title
Embodied resocialization at a children’s weight loss camp.
Creator
Backstrom, Laura
Date Issued
2016-12-24
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.1177_1466138116655361_1631731400
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Citation
Mean Girls or Bad Girls: Expressions of Conflict and Aggression by Black and White Female Siblings on Family Sitcoms
Title
Mean Girls or Bad Girls: Expressions of Conflict and Aggression by Black and White Female Siblings on Family Sitcoms.
Creator
Somersall, Akilah Sharifa, Backstrom, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the expression of anger and aggression in interactions of 6 black and 4 white female siblings on family sitcoms from the 1980s, 1990s and the 2010s. The interactions were examined to determine whether black girls on TV sitcoms were depicted as more conflictual than their white counterparts, whether the content of the portrayals of black girls differed from white girls based on racialized gender stereotypes related to female anger and aggression, whether these depictions...
Show moreThis thesis examines the expression of anger and aggression in interactions of 6 black and 4 white female siblings on family sitcoms from the 1980s, 1990s and the 2010s. The interactions were examined to determine whether black girls on TV sitcoms were depicted as more conflictual than their white counterparts, whether the content of the portrayals of black girls differed from white girls based on racialized gender stereotypes related to female anger and aggression, whether these depictions changed over three eras of television ranging from the 1980s-2010s, and finally, whether birth order and relationship to the girl (family vs. non family) determined whether relationship context influenced conflict. The findings revealed that by race and across time black girls are less conflictual than their white counterparts. This contradicts the acceptance of solely black girls as representations of the violent and aggressive “bad girl.”
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Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013020
Subject Headings
Sitcoms (Television programs), Blacks on television, Mean girls, Whites on television
Format
Document (PDF)
OUT OF STYLE: HEGEMONIC CONSTRAINTS ON FAT MAN’S SELFPRESENTATION THROUGH FASHION
Title
OUT OF STYLE: HEGEMONIC CONSTRAINTS ON FAT MAN’S SELFPRESENTATION THROUGH FASHION.
Creator
Marques, Cassio, Backstrom, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Fashion has functioned to produce and maintain hegemonic discourses of beauty and size by privileging thin, white, upper-classed and heteronormative standards. While fatness opposes these expectations, past research has yet to fully account for fat men who take an active role in using fashion. Neither their purpose nor their reasoning for using fashion has been extensively detailed. I ask three questions: (1) Are fat men able to manage fat stigma through their engagement with fashion? (2) How...
Show moreFashion has functioned to produce and maintain hegemonic discourses of beauty and size by privileging thin, white, upper-classed and heteronormative standards. While fatness opposes these expectations, past research has yet to fully account for fat men who take an active role in using fashion. Neither their purpose nor their reasoning for using fashion has been extensively detailed. I ask three questions: (1) Are fat men able to manage fat stigma through their engagement with fashion? (2) How do fat men use fashion as part of their presentation of self? (3) What role does intersectionality play as these men use fashion in their presentation of self and possibly in managing stigma? Using a content analysis of four hundred Instagram posts and twenty-two semi-structured interviews, I found that given fatness’s stigmatized position in fashion, men rely on their abilities to adhere to masculine standards in downplaying their fat identity. Furthermore, Black gay men’s hyper-marginalized position makes it more difficult for them to adhere to the same masculine standards. These findings show that the fashion industry actively prevents fat men from fully participating due to their size. Yet the way they use fashion is dictated by their ability to adhere to hegemonic masculine standards. Black gay men are most affected negatively as they have a hyper-marginalized status due to the intersection of their identities. As a result, popular accounts for “plus size” male fashion contribute to reproducing and reinforcing hegemonic standards of masculinity, and Black gay men who push boundaries in both gender and body presentation are left invisible.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013832
Subject Headings
Hegemony, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion, Overweight men
Format
Document (PDF)
INTERGENERATIONAL INTERCHANGEABLE FORMS OF MALTREATMENT WITHIN FAMILIES
Title
INTERGENERATIONAL INTERCHANGEABLE FORMS OF MALTREATMENT WITHIN FAMILIES.
Creator
Haggar, Katherine, Backstrom, Laura, McConnell, William, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
In 2022, there were about 4,276,000 referrals to Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies within the United States in regard to 7,530,000 children (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). Of these allegations there are 558,899 victims of child maltreatment (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). One risk factor for child maltreatment is having a caregiver who has experienced victimization. Although there are many other risk factors for child maltreatment, this...
Show moreIn 2022, there were about 4,276,000 referrals to Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies within the United States in regard to 7,530,000 children (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). Of these allegations there are 558,899 victims of child maltreatment (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). One risk factor for child maltreatment is having a caregiver who has experienced victimization. Although there are many other risk factors for child maltreatment, this research highlights a caregiver having been maltreated and then the type of maltreatment experienced (either physical abuse or sexual abuse) as main areas of study. Results highlight that both physical and sexual abuse are found to increase the risk for other forms of maltreatment, while physical abuse increases the risk for both physical abuse and other forms of maltreatment. This research also continues by examining the type of maltreatment experienced and a child’s likelihood to engage in specific types of deviant behavior (petty, non-violent, and violent delinquency). Results show that physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional abuse increase the risk for petty and non-violent delinquency (partaking in criminal actions). Neglect, emotional abuse, and drug or alcohol abuse increase the risk of having been arrested by age 18.
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Date Issued
2024
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014462
Subject Headings
Child abuse, Child sexual abuse, Child welfare
Format
Document (PDF)
PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES: THE INFLUENCE OF DISASTER EXPERIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY USE OVER THE LIFE COURSE ON COVID-19 PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG OLDER ADULTS
Title
PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES: THE INFLUENCE OF DISASTER EXPERIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY USE OVER THE LIFE COURSE ON COVID-19 PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG OLDER ADULTS.
Creator
Kessel, Jordanne, Backstrom, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
No group was more physically vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic than older adults. However, differing life histories and structural realities make for widely varying pandemic experiences. Using a life course approach, this study situates the COVID-19 pandemic and use of communication tools into context of older adults’ life experience with disasters and technology. Merging the scholarly fields of disaster sociology and aging studies, the purpose of this research is to find how life course...
Show moreNo group was more physically vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic than older adults. However, differing life histories and structural realities make for widely varying pandemic experiences. Using a life course approach, this study situates the COVID-19 pandemic and use of communication tools into context of older adults’ life experience with disasters and technology. Merging the scholarly fields of disaster sociology and aging studies, the purpose of this research is to find how life course experience and technology use impacted older adults’ perception of, and response to, COVID-19. Accordingly, I ask how does previous disaster experience and technology usage influence older adults’ coping regarding aging and crisis? Using 29 semi-structured interviews and two focus groups with older adults, I find that the political economic context in which a person experiences disaster has reverberations decades later. This can trigger a process of cumulative advantage, and that men and women have different access points to that process dependent on that context. Moreover, older adults make crisis-based decisions anchored in their current circumstances, not consciously in response to prior experience. In addition, early experience with technology, especially through work, helps to establish a solid foundation for resilience both in terms of resources and adaptation. I found the participants in this study to be remarkably resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of either earlier disaster experience, opportunities through work and relationships, and their ability to technologically adapt.
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Date Issued
2024
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014465
Subject Headings
Aging, Technology, Disasters, Sociology
Format
Document (PDF)